The Tom Brevoort Experience

I had written about this a little bit before, in the context of a broader review of this early issue of FANTASTIC FOUR:

But creator Larry Lieber had held onto a discarded page from this story for all these years. I’d seen...

The second release from Jim Shooter’s new company DEFIANT was DARK DOMINION, which seemed like it might prove to be something interesting. The series was co-created by Shooter and legendary creator Steve Ditko, and it’s clear that Jim was intending to build a title that would allow Ditko to flex the same kind of visual muscles that he had all those years ago on Doctor Str...

The appearance of this book constituted something of a surprise. I seem to recall that it showed up on the spinner rack of my local 7-11, which I still continued to frequent in addition to the new Stationery Store. INVADERS had been a title that i had followed regularly, but a number of months earlier, new issues had stopped showing up. This is how we readers of the 1970s...

In the early 1980s, Frank Miller had a transformative run on DAREDEVIL. Starting out as only the book’s penciler, he began to shift it in tone, moving it away from the ersatz Spider-Man clone it had been towards something with a bit more of a noir sensibility to it. This process accelerated when he took over writing the series as well, and his run launched the title for p...

AVENGERS #150 was another book that was in the collection of my friend David Steckel, and which I borrowed from him to read at some point or another. It was a noteworthy issue for a couple of reasons, most of them not great. First off, it was one of if not the first comic book to make the point that a fiftieth issue was just as noteworthy and worth commemorating as a cent...